1. Why not let the people who are interested in and good at something do it? What law/rule/convention says that everything has to be equitably divided along gender/racial/lifestyle lines?
2. Ladies (and gents), don't be snowed by someone who uses a term you don't know! If someone in a non-technical conversation, uses a word you don't know, what do you do? Look it up/ask/figure it out from context... Same thing with tech stuff. There are so many words and sub-specialties out there that you can't know them all. I'm sure you know some stuff that the speaker doesn't.
3. Be aware that a lot of the tech-speak among these guys is for 2 purposes. One is to establish a pecking order, similar to guys who have to drive faster cars with bigger stereos. (Mine is bigger than yours.) Another is to "impress babes". They are flexing their intellectual muscles for your benefit. I'm not saying this as a putdown and I'm glad for whatever it takes to motivate the techies. I once had 2 guys get into an argument in front of me about which operating system was better (I think it was between 2 flavors of Unix) and after a while I realized that the entire argument was for my benefit! As I sat and watched this argument unfold I could see the 2 guys as 2 animals with their antlers locked.
generally technical
I am fortunate enough to get to work with some of the finest minds in the industry. Babes still aren't attracted to "intellectual muscles", unless those muscles are layered on someone who happens to be on parole for something.
Some of the minds I get to work with are women. They are so very good at their crafts and get all my respect.
Then there is an entire other cardinality that consists of maintenance programmers who think the world owes them rewards for getting up in the morning. The ones who are constantly whining that "they aren't getting the training" they need to be great.
No, and no.
"IEEE 802.11" is used, because that's what it is. No pecking, no babes.
1. Why not let the people who are interested in and good at something do it? What law/rule/convention says that everything has to be equitably divided along gender/racial/lifestyle lines?
Here is the answer and a very good read.From an odd source.
Harrison Bergeron
by Kurt Vonnegut (1961)
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html